CSU men's basketball team lands 6-10 transfer

2:47 AM,
Apr. 24, 2012

Gerson Santo

Written by

Kelly Lyell
KellyLyell@coloradoan.com

Gerson Santo had offers to continue his college basketball career at Illinois or Washington State and also was being recruited by California and Utah.

But the 6-foot-10, 215-pound junior-college transfer said Monday that he liked new CSU coach Larry Eustachy when they first met two years ago in Idaho and was sold on the Rams' program after making a weekend visit to Fort Collins.

"I kind of had my mind set to sign with another school," Santo said from Twin Falls, Idaho, where he just completed his sophomore season on a 31-5 team at the College of Southern Idaho. "I saw the team, I saw the school, I saw ...